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MIRIAM CAHN I AS HUMAN
ISBN: PB: 9788364177552, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2019
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and perform...
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£27,00
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Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...
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Mahuldiha Days
ISBN: HB: 9789385932175, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2018
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, "Mahuldiha Days" is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickl...
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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 53, 2018
ISBN: PB: 9780226602639, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday-gift portraits of an elderly couple, a...
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£42,00
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Multiscale Convection-Coupled Systems in the Tropics A Tribute to Dr. Michio Yanai
ISBN: HB: 9781944970048, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
50 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps
This monograph was inspired by the life and work of Professor Michio Yanai, a seminal figure and dedicated mentor in tropical meteorology. Conceived initially at the AMS Michio Yanai Symposium as "lessons" organized around the principal research area...
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£75,00
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Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry
ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...
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£26,50
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Michelangelo's Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780226482576, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 127 halftones
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old maste...
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Minor Creatures Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226576374, ISBN: HB: 9780226576237, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England's major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works...
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£68,00
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Monsoon of Music
ISBN: HB: 9789385932441, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
432 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A bright young student, a globetrotting star, and a highly respected married couple – each deeply immersed in the tradition of Hindustani classical music".A Monsoon of Music" tells the story of these four musicians whose lives intersect in the small...
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Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
ISBN: PB: 9780226576688, ISBN: HB: 9780226576541, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 halftones
On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...
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